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The Hebrew Teacher - Maya Arad FRIENDLY  PRINTING

Maya Arad
The Hebrew Teacher

Bestseller!

Published February 2018
244 pages, paperback, 21X13.5,
retail price 19 Euro


Also by Maya Arad:
- Happy New Years
- Another Place, A Foreign City
- Family Pictures
- Short Story Master
- Suspected Dementia
- Lady of Kazan
- Behind the Mountain
- Seven Moral Failings
- All about Abigail


ISBN: 978-965-560-035-3
About this title in Hebrew

Ilana, Miriam and Efrat are three women who emigrated, or whose children emigrated, to the U.S. They find themselves in a crisis and decide to take an extreme step to overcome it.

This is a book about distances – between man and wife, parents and children, between an israeli childhood and american adulthood and between the old Israel and the present one.

Maya Arad was born in Israel (1971) and grew up in Kibbutz Nahal-Oz. She graduated in Classics and Linguistics at the Tel Aviv University and has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from London University. She taught at Stanford University.

Her first book Another Place, a Foreign City, a novel in rhymes, also published by Xargol, won the Ministry of Education and Culture award and in 2005 was Shortlisted for the Sapir prize (the Israeli Booker). In 2006 it was performed as a play at the Cameri Theater.

After having examined the funnier and less glamorous aspects of academic life in the critically acclaimed best seller Seven Moral Failings (2006), she published in 2008 a collection of three novellas, Family Pictures, examining family life.

"Maya Arad is the freshest voice in Hebrew literature in recent years."

Timeout Tel Aviv

"When a book offers entertainment and erudition, tension and humor, irony and empathy, and even some morals - what shall I say - you are lucky."

Makor Rishon

"A most impressive literary achievement... delightful and clever."

Ma'ariv

"'Brilliant' is the right expression for this book… a book carefully framed in the sort of genre that characterizes the best of English literature, sticks to the classical form and at the same time brings to life the world in which we live, proving Arad's ability to produce an up to date creation based on literary tradition while at the same time dealing with eternal philosophical questions.


"Against the background of the common realistic writing of the present, which focuses on 'our Tel Aviv', it is heartwarming to read this Hebrew - yet almost English - novel, showing a deep insight of the essence of writing and of life."

Ha'aretz Literary Supplement

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